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View synonyms for donkey's years
donkey's years
noun
, Informal.
- a very long time; eons.
donkey's years
noun
- informal.a long time
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Word History and Origins
Origin of donkey's years1
First recorded in 1895–1900; probably originally donkey('s) ears, as rhyming slang for years, with years replacing ears once the rhyming origin was forgotten
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Idioms and Phrases
A long time, as in I haven't seen her in donkey's years . This expression punningly alludes to the considerable length of the animal's ears. [Early 1900s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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